General and Poster Printing
General Printing
ETL provides free color and B/W printing services to College of Education Students, Staff and Faculty. Initially, users are limited to 500 pages per semester.
- Please do not misuse printing services for your personal use, printing books.
- Please delete your print queue, if you do not require it anymore.
- NON COE users can use the computer lab, but they are restricted to printing.
- For NON COE users, there is a university computer lab in the basement for printing.
Poster Printing
Let us help you create the poster for your presentation. We provide poster printing service for the College of Education. This service is a great option for people looking to share their research with their peers and professors.
NOTE: If you are not from college or require high color accuracy, we suggest you contact creative.uic.edu, UPS, Walgreens, or FedEx for professional printing.
- We produce poster for students (requires approval from the professor), staff, and faculty within the UIC College of Education.
- Pre-Approval is required from the director of the ETL & there is no cost for College of Education.
- Please send us a request from contact us tab at least ONE WEEK before your project due date.
- The requestor must be part of the UIC College of Education & must follow these instructions below:
Steps from approval to pickup
Preparing your Poster
- ETL will ONLY accept poster files in PDF.
- If your poster was created in Microsoft PowerPoint, your file will be in the PPT format – you will need to convert this file to PDF.
- To do so, open your file in Microsoft PowerPoint, hit File > Export… and choose the File Format to be PDF.
- It is the user’s responsibility that the PDF images are not low resolution images or the poster will have blurry images.
- For your Unit and College specific logos please visit here https://marketing.uic.edu/
- Please include the size of the paper that you want to be printed.
- * ETL has two printers. They support max width of 44″ or 24″. Technically, there is no height limit until the roll finishes.* If ETL doesn’t receive the paper size for the poster, we will print it to default size of 44″ * 36″.
Approval
- Submit a poster printing request from support page.
- Ensure that the ‘Topic’ is listed as “Poster Printing (24″ and 44” Wide)
- ETL staff will start printing after the approval from ETL director.
- Give your ticket the following title: Poster Printing Request – [Last Name, First Name]
Please list the following regarding your poster(s) in the body of the ticket:
- Purpose of the poster(s) (if for a class, specify course number and name of professor)
- Position (e.g. student, faculty, staff)
- Deadline
- Poster Size
- Quantity
- PDF attachment(s) of your poster
- For extensive files, you can also upload the file to OneDrive, Box, Google Drive and share a link with us.
- ETL will update the ticket to notify the user when the poster is completed and ready for pickup.
- Please allow up to one week after submitting your poster for any updates on your poster.
Picking up your poster(s)
- ETL will reply via email when your poster is finished printing.
- Pick up your poster from the Educational Technology Lab in ETMSW 2027 during office hours.